This is most likely just a way to offload liability
And to make the owners pay for maintenance and electricity.
If they lock the feature behind a higher price tier, a subscription, or a cut of the profits, it’s a low-risk income stream with minimal expenses.
Nothing yet. Just give it a year or three before those age attestations given to websites have to be cryptographically signed by a corp.
Imagine if ransomware did a BYOVD and held your actual hardware ransom.
Shit like that should never have been signed by Microsoft, let alone made it through developer review at Gigabyte.
Paraphrasing a tidbit of information from Northwest Repair, who’s a guy on YouTube that does board-level repairs on computer hardware:
Apparently, reprogramming the firmware config and changing the RGB light status on a DRAM module are both done through the same SPI bus. Consequently, every time you change the RGB lighting, it has a tiny chance of accidentally bricking the stick.
So not only is RGB an additional upfront cost that consumers might not want, it could even contribute to long-term costs by reducing the lifetime of some components.
Shizuku is on the chopping block. One of the change requests being made to AOSP is blocking adb connections on the loopback interface, “for security”.
But don’t all cubes have 217 vertices? /s
Let me fix that for you,
Citizen 1: I can get behind that.
Capitalists: You shouldn’t, that’s communism! Think of all the money you have to waste when you get rich!
It’s just another case of him having a hate boner for Valve. Years ago, he asked Valve to do something via email and Valve ghosted him while doing the exact opposite.
His behavior and attitute towards Valve, in my opinion, is consistent with somebody who has hurt feelings and a grudge. There are actually legitimate things to criticize Valve over, but him having a go at the things that benefit consumers instead of devs just makes him look like a giant anti-consume douche.
No one is buying this to not use it for gaming under a subsidized price because there are much better options for that purpose.
If it cost a few hundred dollars less per unit than comparable small form factor PCs, then small businesses probably would. When you only need something that works and don’t care about support contracts or having a standardized hardware fleet, anything cheap will do the job.
Out of all the distros, NixOS would actually be the easiest to convert to Arch or some other distro. Other than /etc, it doesn’t use the standard FHS paths so you’re free to use some other package manager to install whatever you want under /bin, /lib, /usr, et cetera.
If you only care about running containers, containerd and nerdctl should be sufficient.
If “everything” means your personal information and data, sure.
It sure is a good thing that we don’t have “age verification” laws that require devices to self-report the users age, because when those checks get inevitably bypassed the solution would be upgrading to vendor-attested tokens that are tied to Google/Apple/Microsoft accounts.
Oh, wait…
“Cursor, help me figure out why this request is failing with a CORS error.”
Thinking…
Reviewing sources…
Done.
It looks like everything needs to be thrown out and redone. The whole stack. It’s not good, it’s bloated, it was made by overpaid salary workers.
“What’s wrong with the stack?”
The whole stack. Just the stack. All of it.
What would be amazing is if there was some way to have a fully declarative system that was integrated with a system update UI.
You would upload the config somewhere, your family’s streaming box would see a new update is available and either prompt them to install it or install it for them overnight.
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It has an unsubscribe link at the bottom and zero GitHub branding. This is just some enterprising AI douche scraping emails from commit authorship and adding them to a mailing list.
Drop a 4th one?
Dammit
JenkinsGemini, you did it again! You are a genius!
Fixed that for you.
The more likely case is that the equipment (an autonomous cab) is unprofitable to own once you factor in risk with liability and damages.